Former Katsina deputy governor attends friend’s burial

Oru Leonard 

The former deputy governor of Katsina State, QS. Mannir Yakubu has attended the funeral prayer of his relative Alhaji Mustapha Junaid Abbale who died on Thursday at the Federal Medical centre Katsina after a brief ilines.

The deputy governor described late Junaid as a dedicated civil servants whom many colleagues tried to emulate.

Yakubu prayed for the repose of the soul and for the family of the deceased to bear the irreparable loss.

Late Junaid died at the age of 72, and left behind one wife, ten children and many grandchildren.

Until his death, the deceased was a former deputy Director finance UBEC under federal ministry of . education

He was buried at danmarina grave yard according to Islamic rites.